Author: William Cobbett; G.D.H and Margaret Cole [ed.]
Title: Rural Rides in the Southern, Western and Eastern Counties of England
Description: London, Peter Davies, 1930 . First edition. Cloth. A limited edition three volume edition of William Cobbett's most famous work, 'Rural Rides&apos. A limited edition set, of which one-thousand numbered copies were produced. This set is out of series, and unnumbered.'Rural Rides' documents a series of journeys on horseback through the countryside of Southeast England and the Midlands. William Cobbett was a radical anti-Corn Law campaigner, and his views on the countryside are from a fellow farmer and a social reformer. William Cobbett was an English pamphleteer, farmer, and Member of Parliament. He was passionate about ending poverty of farm labourers, and sought an en to sinecurists and 'tax-eaters&apos. Illustrated endpapers of a map of Cobbett's country by A. E. Taylor. Alfred Edward Taylor was a mapmaker and artist in the early twentieth Century. Though prolific and successful during his life, his work has since been overlooked.With numerous in-text illustrations by John Nash. Nash was a wood engraver and illustrator of landscapes and still-lives, especially of botanic works.A first edition thus, corrected and with additions from G.D.H. and Margaret Cole. In the publisher's original cloth backed marbled paper covered boards. Externally, excellent. A touch of shelf wear to back strip tails, and minor bumps to back strip heads. Internally, firmly bound. Pages exceptionally clean and bright. Fine . Ill.: John Nash; A. E. Taylor. Fine .

Keywords: rural england english history rural rides english history John Nash; A. E. Taylor


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